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Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required

Date 2012-12-19 12:27 +0100
From Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de>
Subject Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:42:26AM -0800, AT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to python and web2py framework. Need urgent help to match a
> pattern in an string and replace the matched text.
> 

Well, what about str.replace then?

>>> 'egg, ham, tomato'.replace('ham', 'spam, ham, spam')
'egg, spam, ham, spam, tomato'


If the pattern you want to match is more complicated, have a look at
the re module!

Regards,
	Thomas.

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Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 02:42 -0800
  Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-19 10:51 +0000
    Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 03:01 -0800
      Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-19 11:09 +0000
  Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de> - 2012-12-19 12:27 +0100
    Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 03:53 -0800
    Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 03:53 -0800
  Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-12-19 14:16 +0100
    Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 05:41 -0800
      Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-19 15:11 +0100
        Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-19 14:23 +0000
    Re: Pattern-match & Replace - help required AT <matifayaz@gmail.com> - 2012-12-19 05:41 -0800

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